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Public Presentations and Lectures

Zoriah has begun to devote a portion of each year to lecturing and presenting to universities, institutions and at political events. For universities, a typical itinerary consists of two days of presentations to multiple departments followed by a public, multi-departmental lecture. The presentations can be tailored in length and subject matter to each department and the multidepartmental lecture currently consist of a thirty minute slideshow showcasing recent work from Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine, the Asian Earthquake and the Tsunami. The lecture touches on many subjects including the art of visual storytelling, the current state of the media and my own thoughts on documenting life in conflict.
Lectures can be tailored to the need of each individual organization, university or event.

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Available Workshops: Location Tailored to Interest

Mexico:

Fossil Fuel Impact. Document car culture and its effects on the environment in one of the worlds most polluted cites, Mexico City.

Israel and Palestine:

Compare and contrast life in Jerusalem and life in the West Bank city or Ramallah.

Indonesia:

Child Drug Addicts. Photograph the lives of children addicted to inhalants.

Travel and Underwater Photography. Students produce a travel story with two to five days being underwater photography instruction by Zoriah and the master divers at Ocean Connections PADI Dive Shop. *students without a scuba diving license will complete a three day licensing course durning the beginning of the workshop.

Laos:

Shoestring Travel. Students travel through Laos and produce a story geared to budget minded travelers and backpackers
- Brazil: Amazonian Deforestation. Work in the Amazon Basin documenting the environmental impact of clear cutting.

Japan:

Technology and The Modern World. Explore the role of technology in our lives in one of the most advanced cities on planet earth. *Japan workshops have higher tuitions and higher living costs.

Turkey:

The New Face of The Refugee Crisis. Live in an urban jungle pupulated by refugees from around the world while documenting their lives...and your own.

Philippines:

Poverty's Environmental Impact: Work in urban slums to show the impact of poverty on the ocean and environment.

Lebanon:

Palestinian Refugees. Spend time photographing the lives of Palestinian refugees living in camps around the country.

Nicaraqua:

Shanty Towns. Documenting life in extreme poverty.

China:

Modernizing an Ancient Culture. Document how modernization and progress effect an ancient culture in the amazing city of Shanghai.

India:

Beggars life. Spend one week documenting the life of homeless or "untouchable" man or woman.

Pakistan and Kashmir:

Working in Extreme Conditions. This workshop is designed to give higher-level students a chance to experience work under adverse conditions.

Vietnam

Comparing urban and rural poverty. Students spend half the workshop photographing in Saigon and the other half in Chau Doc or another small village.

Cambodia

AIDS Orphans - live in an orphanage and document the lives of one or more children.

Biography

Zoriah is an award-winning photojournalist whose work has been featured in some of the world’s most prestigious galleries, museums and publications. Zoriah's clients have included The BBC, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, ABC News, NPR, Focus and many others. With a background in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Aid, Zoriah specializes in documenting human crises in developing countries. His vitae not only lists photographic achievements and study, but also the in-depth training and experience necessary for working under extreme conditions in some of the world's harshest environments

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January 26, 2010

Photos of The Earthquake in Port au Prince, Haiti - The Haitian Earthquake in Pictures

The earthquake in Port au Prince, Haiti has left devastation and immense pain in its wake. What was always a difficult situation in an impoverished country has become a true nightmare for the Haitian people.

The streets of Port au Prince, Haiti are filled with rubble, smoke, human remains and the smell of the dead. Downtown Port au Prince is what one might picture as the end of days. Bodies decompose on the streets and the hands of the dead and trapped reach out from the rubble. Hundreds of Haitians are fighting for survival, looting the destroyed stores and fighting for what they have pillaged. I witnessed countless beatings and was twenty feet away from a young woman when she was shot in the face and killed by police (I will post these images in my next post on the earthquake in Haiti.) A photos of her husband crying over her body is in this post.

Refugee camps are literally on every block and public parks have become make-shift homes to thousands. Families construct shelters out of flimsy fabric sheets and sleep in the squalor of waste, refuse and dirt, cooking simple meals in the same gutters that must be used as toilets and bathing areas. In the several dozen refugee camps I visited, I never once saw an aid worker, food supplies, shelter supplies or any form of assistance or education as to how to avoid disease and survive in this difficult situation. While it is necessary to search for survivors, it is also necessary to take car of those who have survived.

Although the situation after the earthquake in Haiti is horrible, the spirit of the Haitian people is truly strong and beautiful. Although there is violence in the streets, the vast majority of people are just struggling to survive and helping their friends, family and neighbors to do so also. Much, much more needs to be done to help the people of Haiti recover and live in dignity and this need will continue for a very long time. This disaster will take years to recover from, not just months. We must continue to pay attention to the situation there and remember that while there is dire and immediate need there, this will not go away after a few weeks of media attention and fund raising. I urge all of you to get involved in any way you can in the effort to help the Haitian people.

A woman passes in front of the burning remains a destroyed building in downtown Port au Prince, Haiti in the wake of the Haitian Earthquake.

A body decomposes on the streets of Port au Prince.

A man cries after is wife is shot dead by police during looting in downtown Port au Prince.

A family photo of a young child lies in the rubble of a home destroyed by the earthquake.

Residents navigate the remains of their home in search of lost belongings.

Haitians search through destroyed shops while a fire burns dead corpses on the street.

Men try to dig items out of their destroyed home.

The arm of a corpse decomposes on the street.

A woman recovers in a hospital from injuries she sustained during the earthquake.

A man covers his nose to block out the smell of decomposing bodies while walking down the streets of Port au Prince.

A man who sustained serious injuries to his face during the earthquake recovers in a hospital in the Dominican Republic.

A woman shrouded in the smoke of burning garbage in a large, make-shift refugee camp in Port au Prince, Haiti.

That's like the 3rd or 4th report I've heard of someone killed for looting. How gut wrenchingly tragic- that man's wife survives the quake, only to be shot dead for trying to fend for herself and family

Yes it is sad, but has anyone looked under an over-pass or at any busy off-ramp in US cities? The US is also full of tragedy yet TV and NEWS crews focus on the external big events of the moment. It reminds me of what an Israeli guy told me in Tibet a few years ago…before we help people in another country we should help those in our own. I wonder what the people of New Orleans think about the focus on Haiti?

Much like with the stunning photos of the destruction of Haiti's Presidential Palace, these before and after photos of the Port-au-Prince Cathedral, also known as Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, show just how severe the destruction was.

why do people feel a need to focus the attention back to something else? is it not enough that it's tragic for you? what do you care about how people want to donate their money? you donate to NO and you get people to do it. is it patriotic to only care about the pain in suffering that occurs in your own land? show us your amazing photos of the busy off-ramps in the US. i'd love to see them. send me a link, i'd love to donate. meanwhile stop trying to take the haitian tragedy away from the haitians. they are entitled to and deserve whatever attention they're getting. (maybe you should go there and remind them of the suffering that is happening in the US)

i et my brother who injuried at port-au-prince in the earth quake he can't talk his name is Gaby Nelson He is 29 years old he borned on march 20 1981 we went to board they said to us they saw some one like that at the shelter but they don't have any information about him because he could not give to them the information about him please help find my brother we went to DR capitol they said to us again USA took a lot of them to USA please help me

Those pictures will illustrate to l future generations the depth and the breath of this cataclysm and how vulnerable life is. This earthquake strikes the poor and the rich with the same ruthlessness. This is not a situation where gold,wealth,body guard or an arsenal of weapon could save one's life.

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Those pictures will illustrate to l future generations the depth and the breath of this cataclysm and how vulnerable life is. This earthquake strikes the poor and the rich with the same ruthlessness. This is not a situation where gold,wealth,body guard or an arsenal of weapon could save one's life.

You have captured the emotions of these people. My heart is breaking looking at them. I guess with a disaster as awful like this everyone is brought back to earth. Every person is an equal. Money instantly becomes of no value.

Those pictures will illustrate to l future generations the depth and the breath of this cataclysm and how vulnerable life is. This earthquake strikes the poor and the rich with the same ruthlessness. This is not a situation where gold,wealth,body guard or an arsenal of weapon could save one's life

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I see these all photograph and think only that its so bad day in history. The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicenter near the town of Leogne, approximately 25 km west of Port-Prince, Haiti's capital.

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